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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,307 posts.
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How I verify data breaches
Let me start with this headline [http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-passwords-idUSKCN0XV1I6]: Other headlines went on to suggest that you need to change your password right now [http://www.iflscience.com/technology/millions-passwords-hotmail-gmail-and-yahoo-have-been-stolen] if you're using the likes
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Why I Live in IRC (2015)
I have lived in IRC for about 7 years. What I mean by this is that IRC has been my primary hub for reading information online and interacting with people and systems. I don't use an RSS reader, I visit Twitter and Facebook only ...
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Is There Any Room for the Not-Passionate Developer?
A reflection on the software industry, on the place it leaves for non-passionate programmers, and the consequences
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Gas Theft Gangs Fuel Pump Skimming Scams
Few schemes for monetizing stolen credit cards are as bold as the fuel theft scam: Crooks embed skimming devices inside fuel station pumps to steal credit card data from customers. Thieves then clone the cards and use them to steal hundreds of gallons of gas at multiple filling stations. The gas is pumped into…
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The Search for the Perfect To-do List
Beware the to-do list rabbit hole. It starts off with one or two innocent reminders and ends up with you tumbling down a long hole of procrastination in search of the perfect system. After many years of trying different software I’m glad to say that I’m finally climbing back out of the hole wearing a rather dashing…
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Sam Altman's Bubble Talk Bet Is 1 Year Old
I’m tired of reading about investors and journalists claiming there’s a bubble in tech. I understand that it’s fun to do and easy press, but it’s boring reading. I also understand that it might...
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Google Chrome 51 disables HTTP/2 on most Linux distros due to old OpenSSL
Chrome drops NPN for ALPN on May 31st, requiring OpenSSL 1.0.2+. CentOS, Debian, and most Ubuntu versions can't support it, breaking HTTP/2 for millions.
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Great Problems: An Epidemic of Rent-Seeking
America follows the path of late Rome: Fortunes no longer arise from creating new wealth, but via exploiting privileged relations with the state.
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Giving Up on TDD
You mean the one where he says that he tried it for a few months and then gave up? Yes, I read it.
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My view on the current situation of Bitcoin and the Blockchain
In a previous post, I wrote that I believe the Blockchain has the potential to be as disruptive -- and...
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My Raspberry Pi cluster
So I accidentally ordered too many Raspberry Pi's. Therefore, I built a small cluster out of them. I thought I'd write up a parts list for o...
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The Golden Age of Open Protocols
Protocols are a geeky topic. It’s way more interesting to talk about applications. People will go on and on about why they like gmail or some other email application. But not a lot of people get excited about SMTP and IMAP which are the underlying email protocols that allow the gmail application to talk to […]
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Cyberpower crushes coup
Rewriting the rulebook on coups, time to add cyberpower
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If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter (2012)
Blaise Pascal? John Locke? Benjamin Franklin? Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac? Abraham Lincoln ? Henry David Thoreau? Cicero? Mark Twain? Woodrow Wilson?
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
Last night I went to see a showing at the Tribeca Film Festival of the new movie about Ramanujan, The Man Who Knew Infinity. It was extremely good, infinitely better than the most recent high profi…
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Voynich Manuscript: word vectors and t-SNE visualization of some patterns
Update 17/01: reddit discussion thread. Update 19/01: hacker news thread. The codex The Voynich Manuscript is a hand-written codex written in an unknown system and carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438). Although the manuscript has been studied by some famous cryptographers of the World War I and II…
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Forbidden Spheres
A document from 1947 points towards an interesting Los Alamos policy: banning all spheres, innocuous or not, from technical areas.
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Four pitfalls of hill climbing
An animated look at local maxima, novelty effects, differentiation, emergent maxima.